<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 7/29/2010 9:14:03 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/dbroussard/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=ce922e9f-4c03-4546-a59c-2c9b31e58309" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>David Broussard</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:14:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>David Broussard</title><url>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard</link></image><item><title>What engineers do with too much time on their hands</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/06/04/what-engineers-do-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/06/04/what-engineers-do-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[



What is so cool about this video is that it is sung around a massive Rube Goldberg machine that took months to design and build by 40 engineers, techs, etc.  Its really worth watching just for the inherent coolness of the machine.]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:52:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/Fun/default.aspx">Fun</category></item><item><title>Catapult Systems San Antonio is #1</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/06/03/catapult-systems-san-antonio-is-1.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/06/03/catapult-systems-san-antonio-is-1.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
As in the #1 best place to work in San Antonio for 2010!  Of course we knew that already, but it was nice to be recognized by the San Antonio Business Journal.
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A few days ago Apple passed Microsoft in market capitalization (see NY Times article here).  This is slightly odd because Microsoft makes far more in profit ($14.6B on $58.4B in revenue for Microsoft and $5.7B on $42.6B), and has better cash reserves ($39.7B to $23.1B).  So, why is Apple passing u... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/New and Notable/default.aspx">New and Notable</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/iPad/default.aspx">iPad</category></item><item><title>Hands on SharePoint Resources</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/21/hands-on-sharepoint-resources.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/21/hands-on-sharepoint-resources.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Mark Arend has posted the clearinghouse of Microsoft SharePoint hands on resources.  You can find it here.
The best one (in my humble opinion) is the Demo Server.  Its an 18GB (yes GigaByte) zip file with a Hyper-V VPC in it that is preconfigured with SPS2010, Office 2010, VS2010, SPD 2010, and S... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/New and Notable/default.aspx">New and Notable</category></item><item><title>One Web App or Many?  Does 2010 change the equation?</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/21/one-web-app-or-many-does-2010-change-the-equation.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/21/one-web-app-or-many-does-2010-change-the-equation.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Over a year ago I got into a discussion with some other Catapult people on the idea of should an Intranet have one web app, or be split into many web apps.  Let us take as an example a hypothetical company with some basic requirements for an Intranet.   They plan on having three main areas of the ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 11:51:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/Architecture/default.aspx">Architecture</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/Usability/default.aspx">Usability</category></item><item><title>On Launch Day for 2010…a cool new feature</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/12/on-launch-day-for-2010…a-cool-new-feature.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/12/on-launch-day-for-2010…a-cool-new-feature.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
One of the cool new features of SharePoint 2010 is that now, when an error is thrown, instead of just getting a bland error screen and you having to pour through voluminous error logs looking for when it might have occurred, the use is given a correlation ID (a GUID of course) that they can give t... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 09:49:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/New and Notable/default.aspx">New and Notable</category></item><item><title>SharePoint 2010 on a Win7 Box – The journey continues</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/07/sharepoint-2010-on-a-win7-box-–-the-journey-continues.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/05/07/sharepoint-2010-on-a-win7-box-–-the-journey-continues.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Late last year (after the beta 2 bits came out, I attempted to install SPS2010 onto a Win7 box.  I was struggling with not wanting to give up the power management features of Win7 (or Vista) and the fact that MS Virtualization only runs 32 bit hosts.  Now, I could dual boot into Server 2K8R2 (and ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 12:43:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/Tips and Tricks/default.aspx">Tips and Tricks</category></item><item><title>A Guide to SharePoint Performance Testing (Part IV) – Putting it all Together</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2010/03/18/a-guide-to-sharepoint-performance-testing-part-iv-–-putting-it-all-together.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2010/03/18/a-guide-to-sharepoint-performance-testing-part-iv-–-putting-it-all-together.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
This is part three in a continuing series, you should read Part I, Part II, and Part III first.
To recap our SharePoint testing adventure, we have determined what our users are going to do, we have established load criteria, and we have tested our farm changing only the number of users hitting th... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:37:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/Testing/default.aspx">Testing</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/Architecture/default.aspx">Architecture</category></item><item><title>Best Marketing Stunt at SPC09</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2009/10/21/best-marketing-stunt-at-spc09.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2009/10/21/best-marketing-stunt-at-spc09.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The SharePoint Fairy.  She is the director of Marketing for her company and they bought two conference badges and she has been wearing a fairy costume.  Talk about buzz.  She is getting more attention then many of the booths getting her photo taken etc.  Heck we even started a twitter hashtag for ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:52:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPC 09/default.aspx">SPC 09</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category></item><item><title>Thoughts on SPS2010 so far…</title><link>http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/2009/10/21/thoughts-on-sps2010-so-far….aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/dbroussard/archive/2009/10/21/thoughts-on-sps2010-so-far….aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
So after day 1 and day 2 of the Conference I am ready to share some of my initial thoughts.  In the work that I do there are two big issues that customers struggle with in making effective use of SharePoint inside of their organizations.  Honestly there are many more then two, but I am going to ad... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Broussard</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:43:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPC 09/default.aspx">SPC 09</category><category domain="http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/dbroussard/archive/tags/SPS2010/default.aspx">SPS2010</category></item></channel></rss>